I put this daring question into my paper "A Footnote to Einstein 1907":
http://eujournal.org/index.php/esj/article/view/4589/4360
This is a good question with lots of interesting paths to follow in looking for answers.
Walt Disney represents imaginative explorations of space-time with his many comic characters. In a typical comic scenario, the limitations of space-time are removed in flights of the imagination. In Disney's view of the world, every problem has a reasonable solution.
Einstein is well-known for his Gedanken problems. A Gedanken problem describes a fanciful situation such as the following one.
Light Beam Gedanken Problem: imagine that you are sitting on a beam of light traveling in an Easterly direction. Also imaging that a friend of your is traveling a different beam of light, traveling in a Westerly direction parallel with your lightbeam and close to you. After you friend passes you, what do you see in a rear view mirror?
Einstein's Gedanken problems have an element of fantasy that is akin to the scenarios imagined by Walt Disney.
What kind of connection do you mean? Both were pioneers in their field: one made people smile (relax) another, on the opposite, made them concentrate.
Dear Professor Duxbury:
I am greatly indebted to you that you took up on my proposal to re-install analogical pictorial thinking in spacetime physics.
Just as search for life on the three ice-covered watery moons of the solar system is a wonderful empirical (and theoretical) challenge, so is a better analogical understanding of the vibrant life in Einstein's phantasy before it got covered by the ice of merely algebraic deductions. This other, earlier Einstein is the big enigma.
Even to think of the extended long rocketship in outer space, in connection with the palpable miracle of a both observer-specific and universal c, was an epoch-making feat. And the method was Chaplinesque and Disneyesque: taffy-pulling like. With the original modesty of topology before it got algebraicized.
I believe concentrating and smiling can be re-united. You are the only one so far who takes the proposal seriously in the form of giving it the benefit of the doubt. Thank you for that.
Sincerely yours, Otto E. Rossler
This is a good question with lots of interesting paths to follow in looking for answers.
Walt Disney represents imaginative explorations of space-time with his many comic characters. In a typical comic scenario, the limitations of space-time are removed in flights of the imagination. In Disney's view of the world, every problem has a reasonable solution.
Einstein is well-known for his Gedanken problems. A Gedanken problem describes a fanciful situation such as the following one.
Light Beam Gedanken Problem: imagine that you are sitting on a beam of light traveling in an Easterly direction. Also imaging that a friend of your is traveling a different beam of light, traveling in a Westerly direction parallel with your lightbeam and close to you. After you friend passes you, what do you see in a rear view mirror?
Einstein's Gedanken problems have an element of fantasy that is akin to the scenarios imagined by Walt Disney.
Dear Otto, could please give some more hints about your question?
As you know, there is law in logics that says: given any two objects there is always a relationship between them. And the most obvious answer is that there may be no relational all; and that is already a relation. Empty set, if you wish.
Just kidding: both of them were subject to the law of gravity...
From what vantage point would Uncle Scrooge (who lives in place far far away in Duckburg) take forever to dive into his pool of gold coins? I'm sure he's fine - it is us who need proper distortion/compensation to enable us to enjoy the story. Sheer simultaneity. But even if we learned to compensate, Huey, Dewey and Loui would never grow old.
It might be worthy to bring a third party to such a study ― Wernher von Braun:
http://apps3.aps.org/aps/meetings/april09/presentations/H14-4.pdf
http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/disney_article.html
Thank you, Carlos, for the learned information.
And the implied hope to overcome war forever.
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